Scientists debate gaia : the next century / edited by Stephen H. Schneider ... [et al.].
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Pedro Ruiz Torres
- Reflections on Gaia / James Lovelock
- Gaia by any other name / Lynn Margulis
- 1. Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection / Timothy M. Lenton
- 2. Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts / Tyler Volk
- 3. Models and geophysical hypotheses / Arthur C. Petersen
- 4. Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life / Eric D. Schneider
- 5. Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis / J. Scott Turner
- 6. Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation / David Wilkinson
- 7. Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? : biosphere remediation rather than regulation / Karl B. Follmi, Federica Tamburini, Rachel Hosein, Bas van de Schootbrugge, Kaspar Arn and Claire Rambeau
- 8. Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere / Lee R. Kump
- 9. A new biogeochemical earth system model for the phanerozoic eon / Noam M. Bergman, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson
- 10. Gaia and glaciation : lipalian (vendian) environmental crisis / Mark A. S. McMenamin
- 11. Does life drive disequilibrium in the biosphere? / David Schwartzman and Tyler Volk
- 12. Biotic plunder : control of the environment by biological exhaustion of resources / Toby Tyrrell
- 13. Gaia : the living earth - 2,500 years of precedents in natural science and philosophy / Bruce Scofield
- 14. Concerned with trifles? : a geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book / Eileen Crist
- 15. Gradient reduction theory : thermodynamics and the purpose of life / Dorion Sagan and Jessica H. Whiteside
- 16. Gaia and complexity / Lee F. Klinger
- 17. Gaia and observer self-selection / Andrew J. Watson
- 18. Taming Gaia : the history of the Dutch lowlands as an analogy to global change / Peter Westbroek
- 19. Gaia and the human species / Crispin Tickell
- 20. Daisyworld homeostasis and the earth system / S. L. Weber and J. M. Robinson
- 21. Salvaging the Daisyworld parable under the dynamic area fraction framework / K. M. Nordstrom, V. K. Gupta and T. N. Chase
- 22. Food web complexity enhances ecological and climatic stability in a Gaian ecosystem model / Stephan P. Harding
- 23. Gaia in the machine : the artificial life approach / Keith L. Downing
- 24. On causality and ice age deglaciations / Alexandre Casanovas and Vicent Gomez
- 25. Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia / Axel Kleidon
- 26. Modeling feedbacks between water and vegetation in the North African climate system / James R. Miller and Gary L. Russell
- 27. Extraterrestrial Gaias / Siegfried Franck, Werner von Bloh, Christine Bounama and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
- 28. The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment / Felipe Gomez, David Fernandez-Remolar, Elena Gonzalez-Toril and Ricardo Amils
- 29. Climate and the Amazon - a Gaian system? / Peter Bunyard
- 30. On the co-evolution of life and its environment / S. A. L. M. Kooijman
- 31. Stability and instability in ecological systems : Gaia theory and evolutionary biology / Francesco Santini and Lodovico Galleni
- App. Studying Gaia : the NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) program.
